Chief Technology Officer

- Define and maintain LOIMs global IT strategy and multi year technology roadmap. - Lead the development and execution of key technology pillars (architecture, data, AI, cloud, digital workplace, cybersecurity). - Ensure alignment with business strategy, investment priorities, and industry best practices. - Provide thought leadership and innovation guidance to the Executive Committee, Boards & Committees, and senior leadership. - Lead, develop, and inspire a multi location technology organization. - Build a strong team, upskill the organization to an AI-augmented workforce, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Attract and retain high calibre technology professionals. - Oversee the delivery of major transformation programs, ensuring milestones, scope, and budgets are met. - Strengthen project governance, change management, and stakeholder alignment across all business units. - Drive implementation of new platforms, tools, and data capabilities to modernize LOIMs technology landscape. - Own the global technology budget, ensuring cost discipline and return on investment including establishment & maintenance of impactful relationships with senior management at suppliers. - Optimise commercial performance of critical technology partners, including SaaS vendors, market data providers, and infrastructure providers. - Negotiate contracts and oversee risk, service levels, and performance. - Ensure the stability, security, and scalability of all systems and infrastructure. - Strengthen cyber defence, vulnerability management, regulatory compliance, and operational risk frameworks. - Oversee disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and incident response. - Work across functions to minimize IT & Operational errors. - Represent Technology at relevant boards, committees (operational risk, digital, IT steering, data governance, investment platform). - Produce KPIs, dashboards, and regulatory reports, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery. - Proactively manage technology related business risks across the organisation. - Lead the technology response for client due diligence requests, RFPs, and operational reviews. - Present LOIMs technology strategy and controls to investors and partners. - Foster strong relationships with external stakeholders, including regulators and auditors. - Act as a strategic advisor to Investment, Sales, Risk, Operations, Compliance and Executive leadership teams. - Translate business needs into scalable technology solutions. - Champion data driven decision making and adoption of digital tools across LOIM. - Maintain a strong, demonstrable network across industry peers, consortiums / forums and key service providers.